A New Jekyll Plugin for Handling Beta Documentation

I’ve added a new Jekyll plugin to my repository called Availability. It lets you mark sections of documentation based on their availability in different software builds. This post will be short as I’ve already documented it pretty well in the README, plus it will likely be of use to literally nobody but me, as it would only be useful to people running Jekyll-based documentation sites about a single Mac app that has a public beta program, which is a pretty limited audience. beta, documentation, jekyll, marked, plugin, writing

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Let’s Get Crazy With BetterTouchTool and Touch Bar Simulator

I’ve recently put some1 time into making a Touch Bar “dashboard” using BetterTouchTool. I know, the first thing you thought when you read that was “but Apple is discontinuing the Touch Bar!” Let me explain. Or try to. I almost didn’t write this post because I was worried it would indicate mental instability of some kind2. But how could I call myself a “Mac Mad Scientist” if things didn’t get a little crazy? We’re all mad here, right? automation, bettertouchtool, bunch, doing, gestures, howzit, icons, keyboard, launchbar, macos, network, scripting, shortcuts, status, weather, where

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Jay Miller: Using Bunch for Creating Newsletters

Jay Miller has published his first video on Bunch. It’s a walkthrough of a Bunch he uses for automating his email newsletter process, and is a great example of Bunch’s usefulness. It highlights some cool Bunch features like embedded snippets and calling Keyboard Maestro URLs, as well as some features that would be considered more “advanced,” such as assigning variables with script results and using variables in conditions. automation, bunch, video

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A Jekyll Plugin for Documenting Mac Keyboard Shortcuts

In the process of blogging here, as well as writing extensive documentation for my own apps, I end up writing about keyboard combinations a lot. Over the years I’ve made this easier on myself in various ways, but I think I’ve finally perfected a Jekyll plugin to make the process simple and the results consistent across my sites. I’m calling it, not too cleverly, “kbd.” blogging, jekyll, keyboard, plugin, shortcuts, writing

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